Born 06 06 1930. In Pandelis (Rokiškis district). Died on 2005 06 07.
In 1941 he was deported with his parents to the Altai region. In 1947, after escaping from exile, he studied for one year in the gymnasium in Obeliai. 1948 arrested and exiled to Krasnoyarsk krai. He cut down forests and worked in antimony mines. In 1956 he returned to Lithuania and worked in various geological prospecting activities. Since 1992 Chairman of the Exiles' Return Foundation, 1996 Member of the Seimas.
He made his debut in the republican press in 1989.
The starting point of Cinauskas's poetry is the classical folklore quatrain. However, the poet soon found this Procrustean bed too small, and tried to get rid of the brazdžionic pathos. The texts took on new features - humour, irony, meditative contemplation. In the last collection, paradox is used more and more often, and classical rhyming is no longer so naïve.